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Some older systems featured a simple beeper as their only sound output, as the original ZX Spectrum and IBM PC; despite this, many skilled programmers were able to produce unexpected rich music with this bare hardware, where the sound is fully generated by the system's' CPU by direct control of the beeper. The earliest precursors to chip music can be found in the early history of computer music. In 1951, the computers CSIRAC and Ferranti Mark 1 were used to perform real-time synthesized digital music in public. 7 One of the earliest commercial computer music albums came from the First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, held August 25, 1978, as part of the Personal Computing 78 show. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival recordings were published by Creative Computing in 1979. 8 The Global TV program Science International 197679 credited a PDP-11/10 for the music. Video game origins edit. Chiptune music began to appear with the video game music produced during the golden age of video arcade games. An early example was the opening tune in Tomohiro Nishikado s arcade game Gun Fight 1975.